Talk:2009 North Korean parliamentary election

North Korea and elections? This must be som kind of a joke...--Oddeivind (talk) 16:35, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Nope. The article Politics of North Korea explains it. Aridd (talk) 10:18, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

I hope the opposition wins, oh nevermind...Etherialemperor (talk) 05:12, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Are we sure that the elections were held on August 5? There's no mention of them in KCNA, or anywhere else that I can find. Aridd (talk) 13:39, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

I can't find any info either. The quoted source says the elections have been held, but it is unreliable (e.g. Somaliland presidential election has definately not been held). Brambo (talk) 14:13, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

The CIA website confirms that elections were due in August 2008, but doesn't say they actually took place. I'm going to do what I did for the French version of this article: edit it to indicate that elections were due to be held, but that no information is available as to whether they occured. Aridd (talk) 07:19, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Would it be biased...

...to openly state these are show elections? 76.117.247.55 (talk) 20:58, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

I think they should be called show elections. With a reference in the form of a proper inline citation of course. Tempshill (talk) 22:38, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

I have complained about this on T:MP as well. There are a lot of countries in the world where the right to vote has been hard-won, where it has involved at least two parties vying for the public imprimatur. To call an event where the population is required to rubber-stamp 687 names into a rubber-stamp national legislative body an election is an insult to so many people, not least those who got beaten and harassed by Mugabe's thugs in Zimbabwe. Daniel Case (talk) 04:54, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Well, you sound objective. --128.243.253.111 (talk) 16:15, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

I think the nature of the election is already quite clear from the article text. I don't think we need to editorialise. It is theoretically possible for the voters to reject all candidates, but I don't think it has ever happened. Is it clear from which box the vote goes into, which way someone has voted? Otherwise we could quote someone notable who has commented if we have a reference. Perhaps balanced with a victory quote from Mr Kim... Xandar 16:19, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Deputies

I don't suppose there is a list published of the deputies elected, or an electoral district map anywhere out there? --70.75.214.19 (talk) 03:14, 10 March 2009 (UTC)